ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,862, issued on June 2, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Enhancing variable font transitions by generating and reordering font instances" was invented by Pranay Kumar (Noida, India) and Nipun Jindal (Delhi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for generating and visualization font variation instances of a variable font using deep-aware focal points in a font variation space. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems determine, for a variable font, a set of predefined font variation instances defining name...